Call for proposals: Cybersecurity research

From: CCI Southwest Virginia

Call for proposals for cybersecurity research.  

Anticipated award amount: up to $75,000

Period of performance: July 1, 2024 - July 30, 2025

Submission deadline: Friday, May 24, at 5 p.m.

Focus areas should be within the intersection of data, autonomy, and security. The CCI Southwest Node has a particular emphasis on cybersecurity related to fast, secure, and customizable communications systems and technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), defense-in-depth cybersecurity solutions, emerging technologies (such as NextG and quantum information science, technology, and engineering) and cryptographic protocols, applications in transportation, energy, space, autonomous systems, manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare, as well as issues surrounding human factors, privacy, ethics, and global security in society. CCI is interested in research that may lay the foundation for startups or spinouts in the cybersecurity sector.

For information, visit https://cyberinitiative-swva.org/funding/network-cfps/2025-cybersecurity-research.html.